Patents Assigned to Kayak Software Corporation
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Publication number: 20140195525Abstract: A travel search engine enables a user to share his or her search results with one or more other users in real time. Each of the users has a common set of search results and any user can select share a specific result within the common set. The remaining results in the common set can be independently filtered and sorted. By selectively sharing various ones of the search results, while being able to separately manipulate the remaining search results, users have access to a common set of potentially mutually acceptable results, but can still individually explore the search results by filtering along different criteria.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2014Publication date: July 10, 2014Applicant: Kayak Software CorporationInventors: Paul M. English, Derek M. Young, Jeff A. Rago, Lincoln D. Jackson, Paul D. Schwenk, Giorgos C. Zacharia
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Patent number: 8738599Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for a dynamic information connection engine. User actions are detected on at least one client system. In response, a determination is made whether the user is searching for supported information. When the user is searching for supported information, information is extracted electronically from third party web sites, direct supplier connections, and intermediate databases. Potential information suppliers are automatically selected in response to the detected user search. Queries are formulated from the user search and transferred to each selected supplier over a network coupling. The queries include a request for information. Responses are received from the suppliers, and the responses are used to generate a result list for the user. The result list includes information and query status information. Further, an electronic link may be provided to a web site of each supplier from which the information was derived.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2013Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignee: Kayak Software CorporationInventors: Brian E. Barth, Stewart A. Kelly, Marcel D. Janssens
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Publication number: 20140136316Abstract: Suppliers of goods and/or services subject to shifts in capacity utilization design and implement marketing campaigns around utilization forecasts, targeting marketing expenditures on periods of excess capacity rather than periods without excess capacity, and in some embodiments also to alter variables such as pricing, consumer targeting, or even the intensity of the campaign itself on a dynamic basis in response to changing market conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2013Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicant: Kayak Software CorporationInventors: Charles L. Spurr, Jim Giza, Paul M. English, Steve Hafner, Andrew Patterson, Daniel S. Hafner
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Patent number: 8719251Abstract: A travel search engine enables a user to share his or her search results with one or more other users in real time. Each of the users has a common set of search results and any user can select share a specific result within the common set. The remaining results in the common set can be independently filtered and sorted. By selectively sharing various ones of the search results, while being able to separately manipulate the remaining search results, users have access to a common set of potentially mutually acceptable results, but can still individually explore the search results by filtering along different criteria.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2009Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: Kayak Software CorporationInventors: Paul M. English, Derek M. Young, Jeff A. Rago, Lincoln D. Jackson, Paul D. Schwenk, Giorgos C. Zacharia
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Patent number: 8600784Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention relate to systems and methods used to search for information (e.g., from multiple sources). In one example (which example is intended to be illustrative and not restrictive), such systems and methods may select a subset of available relevant Internet information sources, such as suppliers and/or purchasers of goods, services, and/or commodities. In another example (which example is intended to be illustrative and not restrictive), a system and method are provided for determining when to launch an information search and for determining the set of information sources to search.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2005Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Kayak Software CorporationInventors: Glen E. Ivey, Rahim Amlani
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Patent number: 8583485Abstract: Suppliers of goods and/or services subject to shifts in capacity utilization design and implement marketing campaigns around utilization forecasts, targeting marketing expenditures on periods of excess capacity rather than periods without excess capacity, and in some embodiments also to alter variables such as pricing, consumer targeting, or even the intensity of the campaign itself on a dynamic basis in response to changing market conditions.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2011Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Kayak Software CorporationInventors: Charles L. Spurr, Jim Giza, Paul English, Daniel S. Hafner, Andrew Patterson, Steve Hafner
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Publication number: 20130246103Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for a dynamic information connection engine. User actions are detected on at least one client system. In response, a determination is made whether the user is searching for supported information. When the user is searching for supported information, information is extracted electronically from third party web sites, direct supplier connections, and intermediate databases. Potential information suppliers are automatically selected in response to the detected user search. Queries are formulated from the user search and transferred to each selected supplier over a network coupling. The queries include a request for information. Responses are received from the suppliers, and the responses are used to generate a result list for the user. The result list includes information and query status information. Further, an electronic link may be provided to a web site of each supplier from which the information was derived.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2013Publication date: September 19, 2013Applicant: Kayak Software CorporationInventors: Brian E. Barth, Stewart A. Kelly, Marcel D. Janssens
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Patent number: 8458162Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for a dynamic information connection engine. User actions are detected on at least one client system. In response, a determination is made whether the user is searching for supported information. When the user is searching for supported information, information is extracted electronically from third party web sites, direct supplier connections, and intermediate databases. Potential information suppliers are automatically selected in response to the detected user search. Queries are formulated from the user search and transferred to each selected supplier over a network coupling. The queries include a request for information. Responses are received from the suppliers, and the responses are used to generate a result list for the user. The result list includes information and query status information. Further, an electronic link may be provided to a web site of each supplier from which the information was derived.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2011Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignee: Kayak Software CorporationInventors: Brian E. Barth, Stewart A. Kelly, Marcel D. Janssens
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Publication number: 20130073323Abstract: In one aspect, a computer system comprising at least one computer storing a software implemented exploration tool is provided. The exploration tool, when processed by the at least one computer, performs a method comprising providing at least one first interface for display to a user, the at least one first interface allowing the user to provide criteria regarding a trip, receiving, via the at least one first interface, at least one criterion from the user indicating one or more travel preferences, the at least one criterion not including a specific destination, obtaining travel results for a plurality of destinations, each of the travel results meeting the at least one criterion, and providing the travel results for display to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2012Publication date: March 21, 2013Applicant: Kayak Software CorporationInventors: Giorgos C. Zacharia, Paul M. English, Lincoln D. Jackson, Jeff A. Rago, Adam Baratz, Sidra Michon
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Publication number: 20130024404Abstract: According to some aspects, a system is provided comprising at least one computer readable storage medium storing a cache of flight information comprising a plurality of flight solutions, the cache capable of being accessed to obtain flight solutions that meet a criteria specified in one or more flight search queries, and at least one computer programmed to apply at least one machine learning model to at least some of the flight information in the flight information cache to classify at least one of the plurality of flight solutions according to an assessed fidelity of the at least one flight solution, and perform at least one action based on the classified at least one flight solution.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2012Publication date: January 24, 2013Applicant: Kayak Software CorporationInventors: Giorgos C. Zacharia, Paul M. English, Travis M. Gebhardt, Dmitry Tkach, Kosmas Karadimitriou, Vinayak V. Ranade
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Publication number: 20120179578Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for a dynamic information connection engine. User actions are detected on at least one client system. In response, a determination is made whether the user is searching for supported information. When the user is searching for supported information, information is extracted electronically from third party web sites, direct supplier connections, and intermediate databases. Potential information suppliers are automatically selected in response to the detected user search. Queries are formulated from the user search and transferred to each selected supplier over a network coupling. The queries include a request for information. Responses are received from the suppliers, and the responses are used to generate a result list for the user. The result list includes information and query status information. Further, an electronic link may be provided to a web site of each supplier from which the information was derived.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2011Publication date: July 12, 2012Applicant: Kayak Software CorporationInventors: Brian E. Barth, Stewart A. Kelly, Marcel D. Janssens
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Publication number: 20120179673Abstract: Method and apparatus for dynamic information connection search engine. User actions may be detected on at least one client system. Determination may be made whether the user is searching for supported information. When the user is searching for supported information, information may be extracted electronically from, e.g., third party websites, direct supplier connections, and/or intermediate databases. Suppliers may be automatically selected in response to the user search. Queries may be formulated from the user search and transferred to one or more selected suppliers over a network coupling (e.g., the Internet and/or intranet). Queries may include one or more requests for information. One or more responses may be received from suppliers, and responses may be used to generate results for the user. Results may include information and/or query status information. An electronic link may be provided to a website of one or more suppliers from which information was derived.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2012Publication date: July 12, 2012Applicant: Kayak Software CorporationInventors: Stewart A. Kelly, Marcel D. Janssens, Matthew S. Garman
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Patent number: 8095536Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for a dynamic information connection search engine. User actions may be detected on at least one client system. In response, a determination may be made whether the user is searching for supported information. When the user is searching for supported information, information may be extracted electronically from, for example, third party websites, direct supplier connections, and/or intermediate databases. Potential suppliers may be automatically selected in response to the detected user search. Queries may be formulated from the user search and transferred to one or more selected suppliers over a network coupling (e.g., the Internet and/or an intranet). The queries may include one or more requests for information. One or more responses may be received from the suppliers, and the responses may be used to generate a result list for the user. The result list may include information and/or query status information.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2010Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: Kayak Software CorporationInventors: Stewart A. Kelly, Marcel D. Janssens, Matthew S. Garman
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Patent number: 7979457Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for a dynamic information connection search engine. User actions may be detected on at least one client system. In response, a determination may be made whether the user is searching for supported information. When the user is searching for supported information, information may be extracted electronically from, for example, third party websites, direct supplier connections, and/or intermediate databases. Potential suppliers may be automatically selected in response to the detected user search. Queries may be formulated from the user search and transferred to one or more selected suppliers over a network coupling (e.g., the Internet and/or an intranet). The queries may include one or more requests for information. One or more responses may be received from the suppliers, and the responses may be used to generate a result list for the user. The result list may include information and/or query status information.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2006Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignee: Kayak Software CorporationInventor: Matthew S. Garman
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Publication number: 20110145061Abstract: Suppliers of goods and/or services subject to shifts in capacity utilization design and implement marketing campaigns around utilization forecasts, targeting marketing expenditures on periods of excess capacity rather than periods without excess capacity, and in some embodiments also to alter variables such as pricing, consumer targeting, or even the intensity of the campaign itself on a dynamic basis in response to changing market conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2011Publication date: June 16, 2011Applicant: KAYAK SOFTWARE CORPORATIONInventors: Charles L. Spurr, Jim Giza, Paul English, Steve Hafner, Andrew Patterson, Daniel S. Hafner
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Patent number: 7917387Abstract: Suppliers of goods and/or services subject to shifts in capacity utilization design and implement marketing campaigns around utilization forecasts, targeting marketing expenditures on periods of excess capacity rather than periods without excess capacity, and in some embodiments also to alter variables such as pricing, consumer targeting, or even the intensity of the campaign itself on a dynamic basis in response to changing market conditions.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2005Date of Patent: March 29, 2011Assignee: Kayak Software CorporationInventors: Charles L. Spurr, Jim Giza, Paul English, Daniel S. Hafner, Andrew Patterson
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Publication number: 20100268623Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for a dynamic information connection engine. User actions are detected on at least one client system. In response, a determination is made whether the user is searching for supported information. When the user is searching for supported information, information is extracted electronically from third party web sites, direct supplier connections, and intermediate databases. Potential information suppliers are automatically selected in response to the detected user search. Queries are formulated from the user search and transferred to each selected supplier over a network coupling. The queries include a request for information. Responses are received from the suppliers, and the responses are used to generate a result list for the user. The result list includes information and query status information. Further, an electronic link may be provided to a web site of each supplier from which the information was derived.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2010Publication date: October 21, 2010Applicant: KAYAK SOFTWARE CORPORATIONInventors: Brian E. Barth, Stewart A. Kelly, Marcel D. Janssens
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Patent number: 7774331Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for a dynamic information connection engine. User actions are detected on at least one client system. In response, a determination is made whether the user is searching for supported information. When the user is searching for supported information, information is extracted electronically from third party web sites, direct supplier connections, and intermediate databases. Potential information suppliers are automatically selected in response to the detected user search. Queries are formulated from the user search and transferred to each selected supplier over a network coupling. The queries include a request for information. Responses are received from the suppliers, and the responses are used to generate a result list for the user. The result list includes information and query status information. Further, an electronic link may be provided to a web site of each supplier from which the information was derived.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2005Date of Patent: August 10, 2010Assignee: Kayak Software CorporationInventors: Brian E. Barth, Stewart A. Kelly, Marcel D. Janssens
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Patent number: 7668811Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for a dynamic information connection engine. User actions are detected on at least one client system. In response, a determination is made whether the user is searching for supported information. When the user is searching for supported information, information is extracted electronically from third party web sites, direct supplier connections, and intermediate databases. Potential information suppliers are automatically selected in response to the detected user search. Queries are formulated from the user search and transferred to each selected supplier over a network coupling. The queries include a request for information. Responses are received from the suppliers, and the responses are used to generate a result list for the user. The result list includes information and query status information. Further, an electronic link may be provided to a web site of each supplier from which the information was derived.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2006Date of Patent: February 23, 2010Assignee: Kayak Software CorporationInventors: Marcel D. Janssens, Philipp M. B. Winkler
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Patent number: 7668809Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for a dynamic information connection engine. User actions may be detected on at least one client system. In response, a determination may be made whether the user is searching for supported information. When the user is searching for supported information, information may be extracted electronically from, for example, third party websites, direct supplier connections, and/or intermediate databases. Potential suppliers may be automatically selected in response to the detected user search. Queries may be formulated from the user search and transferred to one or more selected suppliers. Responses may be received from the suppliers, and used to generate a result list for the user. The result list may include information and/or query status information. Further, an electronic link may be provided to a website of one or more of the suppliers from which the information was derived.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2005Date of Patent: February 23, 2010Assignee: Kayak Software CorporationInventors: Stewart A. Kelly, Marcel D. Janssens, Matthew S. Garman